Armstrong settles fraud case

* World number two Adam Scott’s hopes of winning the World Cup of Golf for Australia plunged midway through his opening round on Thursday when he crashed to a quintuple-bogey nine at the par-four 12th at Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Scott started steadily enough,grafting through breezy conditions to be one-under at the turn.Scott fell away again with a bogey on the par-five 15th and finished with a four-over 75 to be joint 46th in the field of 60,nine strokes behind joint leaders Kevin Streelman of the United States and Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn.

Uruguay seal WC spot

* Uruguay sealed their spot at the 2014 World Cup finals after a goalless draw at home to Jordan in the second leg of their intercontinental playoff on Wednesday saw them advance 5-0 on aggregate. Uruguay,the last of the 32 teams to book their place at the finals in Brazil,had all but secured their berth with a crushing 5-0 victory in the first leg in Amman last week.

Dilshan powers SL to T20 win

* Tillakaratne Dilshan hit an unbeaten 59 and Kusal Perera smashed a 37-ball 57 to propel Sri Lanka to an easy eight-wicket win over New Zealand in the second Twenty20 and a 1-0 win in the two-match series on Thursday. Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal won the toss and asked the visitors to bat first,and they made 142-7 at Pallekele International Stadium. The home team reached the target with 13 deliveries to spare. The result kept Sri Lanka atop the Twenty20 rankings.

Brief Scores: New Zealand: Sri Lanka 143-2 in 17.5 overs (Tillakaratne Dilshan 59 not out,Kusal Perera 57; Rob Nicol 1-18),def. New Zealand 142-7 in 20 overs (Luke Ronchi 34 not out,Anton Davcich 30; Thisara Perera 1-13,Angelo Mathews 1-17) by 8 wickets.